The wedding ceremony is an extremely important event in every culture. The wedding itself, on the other hand, is associated with a heavily drunk party for most people. Just a few years ago, during the wedding preparations, you bought the so-called head bottle. Only then could we safely move on to organizing the rest of the wedding elements. Today, however, young couples approach the subject in a completely different way…
More and more couples are choosing alcohol-free weddings. From year to year, the approach to alcohol changes, and the group of abstainers grows
This couple decided to have a wedding without alcohol, and served only water to the guests. This caused quite a bit of indignation among the guests. At the wedding There were also no substitutes in the form of juices or cola drinks. Only water was waiting for guests. Most were indignant and did not hide their disapproval from the young couple.
After the wedding, the groom, taken over, decided to share his experience on the portal reddit, describing the story and asking:
Am I the asshole?
He further wrote:
My wife and I got married this year. We have quite large families, there were about 150 people at the wedding. We paid for the party ourselves. We both don’t drink alcohol, so we decided to party without it.
he explained.
Should the bride and groom pay for overnight guests? ‘If the costs of the wedding were lower…’ (illustration photo) Bogdan Sonjachnyj / Shutterstock
This is not against our guests. Alcohol just isn’t for us and we don’t want it at the party. Plus, we’re really just drinking water. We rarely drink juice or milk. We don’t even drink coffee.
The reason for giving up alcohol was also the desire to save money. The groom emphasized that by serving only filtered water, he and his wife saved a lot of money. He assured that there was plenty of food and everyone had something to choose from. He also did not understand the indignation that their decision caused among the invited guests:
We didn’t expect it to be such a big deal. It’s just water after all. Isn’t that the drink people drink every day?
Young couple Illustrative Photo, Shutterstock
The post caused quite a stir online. Netizens immediately started commenting
Many people commented on the newlyweds’ post, taking the side of … guests!
The wedding ceremony is for the bride and groom, but the party is for everyone invited. Not providing guests with other drinks makes you just bad hosts.
It’s cheap and poor to serve only water to guests. I recommend that the invitees get drunk before the wedding.
I wonder if in 20 years your guests will remember; Remember that wedding we had to smuggle 2 liters of Pepsi to?
It seems that the opinion on alcohol-free weddings is unanimous among Internet users
On a well-known wedding website weddingdream we can read:
I understand that this is a party for the bride and groom, but their goal is also to make the guests have fun. We are a society heavily accustomed to alcohol. A wedding party without vodka can cause dissatisfaction. Ba! It sure did. There is one more risk – people will not want to play. And there is probably nothing worse than an empty dance floor for most of the wedding.
– said 35-year-old Paweł from Warsaw.
I was at a wedding without alcohol once and I remember it very badly. The bride’s father is an alcoholic who has not been drinking for years. She decided to party while sober to pay him respect.
– summed up 33-year-old Dagmara from Krakow.
And you? What do you think is mandatory alcohol at a wedding? Let me know in the comments.
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Sources: Reddit.com, weddingdream.com
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